akshay bhat / 500px (NEW YORK) — A member of a threatened owl species couldn’t resist the chance to join vacationers aboard a cruise liner, evading capture for weeks. A “wayward” burrowing owl hitched a ride on the Royal Caribbean International’s Symphony of the Seas and remained on board for […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Manhattan district attorney’s office has informed former President Donald Trump of his right to testify before a grand jury investigating his role in a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. […]
Cornelius Police Department (NEW YORK) — The mother of a missing 11-year-old girl asked a distant relative if he could help smuggle them away from their home because she was in a bad relationship with her husband and wanted a divorce, according to a search warrant obtained by ABC News. […]
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Protesters in Atlanta say they are hoping to reignite the energy from the 2020 racial reckoning during a rally they are calling their National Day of Action Against Police Terror on Thursday. Across the country, anti-police brutality and racial justice activist groups will […]
Courtesy of Laquonda Green, Tay McGee, and Michele Williams, and ABC News (NEW YORK) — A powerful Mexican cartel has allegedly taken responsibility for the kidnapping of four U.S. citizens, and killing of two of them, in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Five men were found tied up near […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors in the criminal trial against Alec Baldwin and the armorer involved in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins refuted claims by the defense that the gun used in the incident was destroyed. Baldwin’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, told the court during a status conference […]
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office (EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio) — More than a third of the East Cleveland, Ohio, police department is now under indictment after prosecutors charged 11 more current and former members of the troubled law enforcement agency with public corruption and civil rights violations, alleging some of their abuse […]
Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys have filed a notice of appeal for the former lawyer’s convictions and sentences, a week after he was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son, court records show. The notice was filed in the […]
Senior Airman Leon Redfern/USAF (ABILENE, Texas) — An Air Force pilot has made history by becoming one of the first Air Force service members to fly a supersonic aircraft while pregnant. Maj. Lauren Olme, assistant director of operations for the 77th Weapons Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, […]
MPI/Getty Images (NEWARK, N.J.) — A new monument honoring Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman was unveiled Thursday in downtown Newark, New Jersey. “Shadow of a Face” sits in the town’s newly created Arts and Education District, replacing a statue of Christopher Columbus. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka told ABC News that […]
